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The card above is owned by John Elberfeld. The scan below is from the Helmar web site or eBay

This card is based on the 1908 PC760 Rose Company Postcards. I haven't found a scan of Kid Elberfeld, but scan below shows a typical card. The bottom picture of Kid Elberfeld is from the 1911 T3 American Tobacco Company Turkey Red Cabinets

Original 1908 PC760 Rose Company Postcards design - NOT Kid Elberfeld, but it shows where Helmar got the idea for their card.

Original 1911 T3 American Tobacco Company Turkey Red Cabinets where Helmar got the design for the bottom picture.

L3-Helmar_Cabinet

This card is part of the L3-Helmar Cabinet series that consists of 207 cards. Each card is sized at 9.5” x 4”. This was a particularly interesting series to design and manufacture. The L3-Helmar series represents something that, to my knowledge, has never been done before. Each art card is hand assembled from sixteen different pieces that fit together perfectly. The gold sections that you see, for example, are not simply hot-stamped. They are die-cut from a special art board that has a unique finish. The closest that I can compare the finish is to that of an aged gold bordered tobacco card. The branded leather shield with a unique player figure is made from high grade genuine cow leather. The player portrait circle at top is also a separate, hand cut and applied element. This portrait is set off by nine genuine, multi-faceted crystals manufactured by the world renown Swarovski Kristall company. You may have seen the nine foot diameter, 550 pound crystal star that Sworovski created for the Christmas tree in New York's Rockefeller Plaza. On these Helmar cards the crystals are inset into the surface so that the cards can still be easily stacked. They are available only as singles; never in full sets.